This issue focusses on two successes, which show the international recognition of scientific results and represents the increasing interest of Freie Universität Berlin as well as to closer cooperate with Russian partners by developing the strategic partnerships worldwide. Additionally there are quite a lot of new scholarship and grant opportunities for doctoral students and postdocs.

Tobias Stüdemann / Тобиас Стюдеманн

Ausschreibungen • Вакансии •Opportunities

20 Incoming Postdoc Fellowships

Deadline: March 13 2015, Berlin

The “Postdoc International” POINT research fellowship program – co-financed by the German Excellence Initiative and the Marie Curie Program of the European Commission – provides funding for outstanding postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines to conduct their own research project at Freie Universität Berlin. The POINT program was designed by Dahlem Research School (DRS) at Freie Universität Berlin to promote the further academic career development through research funding, a tailored qualification program and the opportunity to develop teaching and leadership skills. It also provides essential professional guidance on preparing grant proposals to support POINT fellows in obtaining funding for follow-up research projects at Freie Universität Berlin.

Starting in November 2015, each research fellowship will be awarded for 18 months. The call is open to experienced researchers of all disciplines and all nationalities who: hold a doctoral degree (the dissertation must be submitted), completed their doctoral degree no longer than 6 years before the deadline, and have not resided in Germany for longer than 12 months during the last 36 months. Applicants have to submit a project plan based around the research fields/key topics of the participating Excellence Projects or Focus Areas.

Doctorate Scholarships at Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science

Deadline: March 31 2015, Berlin

Building on Berlin’s unique and manifold academic environment, the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) provides outstanding doctoral students with state-of-the-art training in economics, finance, econometrics, and management science. It brings together expertise and excellence from all major universities and research institutions in Berlin. The program's vision is to become one of Europe's leading programs for top-level graduate education in economics and management. The program follows leading international standards with an emphasis on rigorous analytical methods and quantitative analysis preparing students for cutting-edge research in a broad range of fields. It provides core education in macroeconomics, microeconomics, management science, and econometrics.

Postdoc Scholarships at Research Group The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?

Deadline: March 31 2015, Berlin

The Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?“ examines the role of international law in a changing global order. Develop­ments in recent years give rise to the question whether the move towards an international rule of law, which seems to continue in some areas, has lost momentum in others. Inter-state crises in Eastern Europe and Asia display renewed thinking in terms of geopolitical spheres of influence. Collective efforts to address global issues through universal international law meet difficulties in certain fields such as climate protection and world trade. Can we, under current conditions, still observe a legalization/juridification of international relations based on a universal understanding of values, or are we seeing a tendency towards an informalization or a reformalization of interna­tional law, or even an erosion of international legal norms? Or are we simply observing a slump in the development towards an international rule of law based on a universal understanding of values?

The Research Group addresses these questions from a legal and a political science perspective and calls for applications for three Fellowships from 1 October 2015.

Postdoc Fellowship Program of the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies

Deadline: April 20 2015, Berlin

The Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT, graduate school 203 of the German Excellence Initiative) offers interdisciplinary training and research opportunities in the field of Regenerative Medicine for outstanding doctoral and postdoctoral researchers with a background in the biological, engineering or clinical disciplines. Partner institutions of the BSRT are Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, University of Potsdam as well as high-ranking research institutes of the Helmholtz Association, the Max-Planck Society and the Leibniz Association. Young scientists at the BSRT benefit from our worldwide unique approach to foster collaborative science (BioThinking) and work within a strong and intellectually stimulating network of institutions and scientists.

The BSRT postdoc fellowship program is open for young scientists from all over the world coming from a backroung in natural, material and engineering sciences who plan to do their first postdoc project with their own research concept within the scientific focus of the BSRT.

PhD Fellowships of TOPOI – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations

Deadline: April 30 2015, Berlin

The Excellence Cluster 264 “Topoi – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations“, funded by the Excellence Initiative of Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is announcing 9 PhD fellowships, beginning on 1st October 2015. Receiving a PhD fellowship also leads to the admission to the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) of the Berliner Antike-Kolleg and the participation in one of the following structured three-year doctoral programs: PhD fellowships for the doctoral program “Ancient Languages and Texts”, “History of Ancient Science”, and “Landscape Archaeology and Architecture”.

PhD Grants at International Research Training Group "Between Spaces"

Deadline: April 30 2015, Berlin

The interdisciplinary International Research Training Group (IRTG), inaugurated in October 2009 is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and hosted by the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. The IRTG adopts a new perspective in the study of globalisation. It seeks to make an innovative contribution to a transnational and interdisciplinary field of study by means of a dialogue between the social sciences and the humanities that is further informed by the respective academic traditions in Mexico and Germany. The IRTG studies movements between different world regions and the new spaces that have emerged during both past and present periods of ever-increasing global interconnectivity.

The IRTG welcomes applications from the following disciplines: History, Political Sciences, Literature and Cultural Studies, Sociology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economics and Gender Studies.

MA Visual and Media Anthropology

Deadline: April 30 2015, online/Berlin

The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Department of Political and Social Sciences) at Freie Universität Berlin is offering an innovative continuing education Master's (M.A.) program in Visual and Media Anthropology.

The two-year, full-time Master's program comprises 120 ECTS. It is an advanced graduate degree program educating both researchers and media professionals (you need to proof one year job experience in a professional field). The language of instruction is English. It is a web-based E-learning M.A. program with in-house workshops in blocks (2 weeks twice a year). The program is highly international. Our students are coming from countries all over the world.

PhD Positions at Berlin Mathematical School

Deadline: May 1 2015, Berlin

The Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) is a joint graduate school of the mathematics departments of the three major Berlin universities, TU Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, and HU Berlin. We invite excellent mathematics students from Berlin, Germany, Europe and all over the world to join BMS - and to make good use of the ample opportunities offered by the rich and diverse mathematics teaching and research environment. Depending on the individual background, admission is to Phase I (typically with a bachelor) or directly to Phase II (for example, for students holding a master/diploma).

Students entering Phase I of the BMS are expected to have a bachelor degree, or equivalent. For entering Phase II, students are expected to have a master degree, or to pass the BMS Qualifying Exams.